https://leader.pubs.asha.org/article.aspx?articleid=1885592Letter to My Younger SelfWhat advice might you give your younger self, knowing what you know now? Why not put it in writing? Blogger Brooke Leiman of The Stutter Source credits blogger Simon Walsh from Diary of a Stutterer with the idea of such a letter—not to dwell on mistakes of the past, but ...2014-07-01T00:00:00Blogjam

What advice might you give your younger self, knowing what you know now? Why not put it in writing? Blogger Brooke Leiman of The Stutter Source credits blogger Simon Walsh from Diary of a Stutterer with the idea of such a letter—not to dwell on mistakes of the past, but rather to help identify all the positive changes that have been made.

Leiman uses the activity in speech-language treatment to get students talking about the consequences of previous unhelpful thoughts or habits, so that if the habits reappear—which they often do—students are better equipped to identify and extinguish them. Younger students and those new to treatment write a letter to their future selves to ask questions about stuttering and identify things they want to change. Leiman includes a letter one of her 16-year-old clients wrote to his 8-year-old self.

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June 28, 2014

Judith Kuster

Another letter to his younger self

Paul Goldstein, a person who stutters, also wrote a nice letter to his younger self for the 2004 ISAD online conference. It is online at http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad7/papers/bridgebuilders7/goldstein7.html